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Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt

If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.

In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were knocked offline, we featured mass protests by the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece, France and Portugal, as the Global Insurrection contagion spread throughout Europe. And now, as we have seen over the past month, North African and Middle Eastern nations have joined the movement as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Morocco, Gabon, Mauritania, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and Algeria have taken to the streets en masse.

The connection between this latest round of uprisings and the prior protests throughout Europe is one the mainstream media is not making. We are witnessing a decentralized global rebellion against Neo-Liberal economic imperialism. While each national uprising has its own internal characteristics, each one, at its core, is about the rising costs of living and lack of financial opportunity and security. Throughout the world the situation is the same: increasing levels of unemployment and poverty, as price inflation on food and basic necessities is soaring.

Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order.

The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over — from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies at the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedented fashion – the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currently holding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting an equally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts.

IMF imperial operations designed to extract wealth and suppress populations have been ongoing for decades. As anyone researching economic imperialism will know, a centrally planned Neo-Liberal aristocracy controls the global economy.


I: Centrally Planned Economic Repression

The IMF has a well-worn strategy that they use to conquer national economies. As I warned four months ago, we have now progressed into Step 3.5: World Wide IMF Riots. Back in October, in a TV interview with Max Keiser, we discussed leaked World Bank documents that revealed the IMF’s strategy. I stated the following:

“They have a four-step strategy for destroying national economies…. We are about to enter what they would call Step Three. Step Three is when you’ve looted the economy and now food and basic necessities all of a sudden become more expensive, harder to get to. And then, Step 3.5 is when you get the riots. We are fastly approaching that….

We are headed to, as the IMF said, and as they plan, Step 3.5: IMF Riots. That’s what’s coming…”

Fast-forward four months to today, and now we see country after country rebelling against high food prices. Since our October interview, food prices have spiked 15%. According to new World Bank data, since June 2010, “Rising food have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries.”

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http://ampedstatus.org/analysis-of-the-global-insurrection-against-neo-liberal-economic-domination-and-the-coming-american-rebellion-we-are-egypt-revolution-roundup-3/

More from David DeGraw...worth the read as always!

excellent read

WORLD WAR III / A CLASS WAR BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND CORPOCRACY


World War III has already started. It is not a military war but instead an economic class war by the people against the corporate global elite whose puppet spoke person is President Obama. The economically oppressed masses of people in Egypt realized they could literally shut down the government and that empowering message has reached the United States where the masses of enraged people in Wisconsin are taking to the streets in a revolt against their own corporate welfare state. Obama take note ~ this is the beginning of world wide shift in consciousness which will culminate in 2012 and politically sweep away the Oligarchy in the process.

Wikipedia defines Oligarchy as a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, corporate, or military control. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which the exact term is plutocracy. As such, my use of the term corpocracy should be taken in the same context as the Oligarchy and plutocracy ~ rule by the privileged few or global elite.


Our founded Republic is a state under a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control of the government and where most decisions are made with reference to established laws, rather than the discretion of a head of state, a monarch or appointed Czars.


The epicenter of the Middle East people’s revolt is the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel ~ which is a constant and humiliating reminder to the Arab world that they are servants of the global elite who maintain their oppressive regimes through military power and economic control.


The epicenter of the blossoming people’s revolt in the United States is the 9/11 conspiracy where Vice President Dick Cheney created a shadow government committed to corporate welfare and beholden to the global elite. That’s when the Republic began its death throes and the corpocracy emerged from the twin towers ashes ~ where it controlled, and still does control the masses through fear, demonizing, and fabrications with the ultimate big lie being the 9/11 cover up story.

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World War III has begun and it’s a class battle between the people and the corpocracy but on a larger scale it‘s a battle for our lost Republic, our lost freedoms, our lost soul and our forgotten global evolutionary innate urge to unite and prosper in the spirit of love, altruism and social cooperation instead of survival of the strong or most wealthy. As such, it is a shift in consciousness which will become apparent to all in 2012 and nothing can stop it from evolving.

We cannot deny our destiny and it is divine.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/02/21/world-war-iii-a-class-war-between-the-pe

Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey

Perhaps you thought the four-legged BigDog robot wasn’t eerily lifelike enough. That’ll change soon. BigDog’s makers are working on a new quadruped that moves faster than any human and is agile enough to “chase and evade.”

Boston Dynamics, maker of the Army’s BigDog robotic mule, announced today that Darpa has awarded it a contract to build a much faster and more fearsome animal-like robot, Cheetah.

As the name implies, Cheetah is designed to be a four-legged robot with a flexible spine and articulated head (and potentially a tail) that runs faster than the fastest human. In addition to raw speed, Cheetah’s makers promise that it will have the agility to make tight turns so that it can “zigzag to chase and evade” and be able to stop on a dime

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Aside from its unspecified military applications, Cheetah’s makers see it galloping to the rescue and building a brave new future in the fields of “emergency response, firefighting, advanced agriculture and vehicular travel.”

Think that’s creepy? Wait till you see its humanoid, Terminator look-alike buddy.

Meet Atlas, Cheetah’s humanoid pal. Atlas is supposed to look more or less like the T-800 series of Terminators, minus the head. Its designers say it’ll be able to walk like a human over rough terrain, crawling on its hands and knees when necessary and turning itself sideways to slip through any narrow passages it encounters. Headless, with a torso and two arms, it’s a step up from Boston Dynamics’ other biped, the lower-body-bot Petman.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/darpas-cheetah-bot-designed-to-chase-human-prey/#

fuck that!

Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war

Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant "to pull the cover off Satan" and "Zionists dominate the US government and banks."

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war" and are a cover for Satan, at the group's annual meeting near Chicago on Tuesday.

“President Obama," Farrakhan said, "if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Gaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.” Farrakhan called Muammar Gaddafi "my brother" and "my friend."

He also accused American Zionists of attempting to push Israel into war with Iran, adding that "Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system."

One panel at the conference, titled "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," claimed that Jews were disproportionately involved in the slave trade and accused them of controlling the media.


“Some of you think that I’m just somebody who’s got something out for the Jewish people," Farrakhan said. "You’re stupid. Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think it was important for you to know Satan? My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so that he will never deceive you and the people of the world again.”

In response, ADL National Director Abe Foxman said: "Anti-Semitism has suffused the Nation of Islam's message, and Farrakhan is the standard bearer and bigot in chief....Perhaps what's more disturbing is that despite his anti-Semitic rants, he has not been made a pariah in his own community. What does it take for him to stop being a pied piper of hatred?"
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=210444

Thanks to Camerlengo for the link. All the while Hilary is leaving the US options on the table.
Talk of Gadaffi induced terrorism..suddenly we have proof regarding Lockerbie bomber?

The Great Gold Bait-and-Switch

The early decades of the 20th century was a time almost incessantly dominated by one catastrophe after another, subject only to a period of manic economic euphoria, sandwiched between two “World Wars”. Sadly, one will gain little understanding of this tragic period from our “history books”.

The shocking revisionism which is shamefully on display in our modern textbooks and tomes on “history” comes in many forms. Nowhere is this re-writing of events more obvious than with respect to the cause of the Great Depression, and the subsequent response to this deliberately-created crisis.

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Some readers will question the relevance of this discussion, noting that in the 1930's the U.S. had a “gold standard” while today it does not. However, in fact it was U.S. gold-confiscation which denoted the real end-point of the global gold-standard, with the subsequent “Bretton-Woods Agreement” of 1944 merely substituting a grossly-inferior, quasi-gold standard as a replacement for a monetary system previously based upon “sound money”.

More specifically, first the U.S. confiscated the gold of its citizens, and then the Roosevelt government announced it was abandoning a gold “standard”, through ending the “convertibility” of the paper currency of the Federal Reserve into “real money” (i.e. gold). Then to complete its betrayal of its own people, it was only after Roosevelt stole the gold of his own people, and after Roosevelt ended convertibility of banker-paper back to gold that Roosevelt cynically announced his “revaluation” of the price of gold – i.e. the devaluation of the U.S. dollar by roughly 50%. Effectively, after Roosevelt had stolen the gold of his citizens, he retroactively cut their “compensation” in half.

The sequence of events proves this was an intentional betrayal by the Roosevelt government: first he took the gold of U.S. citizens, and gave them (worthless) banker-paper in return. It was only after the gold has been confiscated for paper that Roosevelt informed Americans that they would never be able to get their gold back, and only after that he devalued their banker-paper by roughly 50%.

This was history's greatest “bait-and-switch”. When Americans were first told to “turn in their gold” as a matter of (what else?) “national security”, their response was to simply shrug their shoulders and say “why not?” Because (at that time) Federal Reserve paper was directly convertible to gold, in the eyes of Americans they could always convert that paper back to gold should they ever have the desire to do so. It was only after Roosevelt subsequently ended “convertibility” and then also devalued their paper that Americans (some of them, at least) finally understood they had been robbed.

We know this was an intentional bait-and-switch by the Roosevelt government simply due to the close chronological sequence of events. Only two months after announcing the gold confiscation (i.e. the moment that Roosevelt thought he had squeezed as much gold out of Americans as he could), he ended convertibility.

We also know this was a deliberate theft. In the words of Garrett:

When by the Inflation Amendment [i.e. ending convertibility] the dollar was cut loose from gold it did not immediately fall. That was because, in spite of everything, it was the best piece of money [sic] in the whole world. Well then, when the dollar did not fall headlong of its own weight the government began to club it down, and the club it used to beat it with was gold.

In other words, in order to retroactively transform the “confiscation” of U.S. gold (with compensation) into the theft of gold from its citizens, all that the Roosevelt regime needed to do was to devalue the dollar (by upwardly “revaluing” the price of gold).

The precedent of the U.S. government “clubbing down” the dollar for its own economic advantage obviously has tremendous relevance to the present time. Once again today we see the U.S. government “clubbing down” the U.S. dollar – in order to cheat its foreign creditors on the $trillions in U.S. debt which they are holding (all denominated in U.S. dollars). The only difference is that the weapon being used to “club” the dollar (to death) today is “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke’s printing press.

I would argue that the Roosevelt bait-and-switch regarding gold confiscation also has tremendous relevance today. Ironically, we could very easily see the U.S. government engage in another gold-confiscation with the “gold standard” (again) being the means to complete the “switch”.

Americans watch in horror while fiscally incompetent and morally bankrupt politicians help the banker Oligarchs finish driving the U.S. dollar to zero (they have already caused it to lose approximately 98% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913). Consequently there is now growing awareness among ordinary people of the value of a “gold standard” (to protect their money from the depravity of bankers), and the beginnings of a movement to re-institute a gold standard.

For U.S. politicians (with whom lying and stealing is as natural as breathing), this provides a wonderful opportunity for a new bait-and-switch. This time, instead of duping Americans into surrendering their gold based on the protection of an existing gold standard, the U.S. government will base this betrayal on the promise of a future gold standard.

The scam would proceed as follows. As soon as we see the collapse of the dollar seriously intensify (and Americans become rightfully fearful of becoming the next “Zimbabwe”), the U.S. government will tell its people that it would “love to reintroduce a gold standard”, but “unfortunately it doesn’t have enough gold to do so”. Thus, as “a matter of national security” the U.S. government will announce that it is (again) confiscating all of the gold of its citizens, and as soon as it has “enough gold” it will re-institute a new gold standard (in cooperation with other nations).

There are several points to make about the next U.S. gold confiscation. First of all, merely talking about a “gold standard” would not be nearly enough to convince U.S. gold-holders to voluntarily surrender their bullion (unlike the bait-and-switch victims of the 1930’s). However this detail is entirely irrelevant to the U.S. government.

The most-obvious reason is that the U.S. government no longer needs “consent” or “cooperation” to confiscate most of the gold held by Americans. Having duped Americans into owning most of their gold via “funds” or “accounts”, somewhere around ¾ of all gold currently held by Americans can be “confiscated” merely by some government bureaucrat clicking the mouse on his computer.

The beauty of this method of stealing is that the only segment of the U.S. population who need to be “convinced” (i.e. duped) by the “promise” of a new gold standard are the vast majority of the U.S. population who currently own no gold.

Thus, we would have a dynamic where the vast majority of the U.S. population (who hold only banker-paper) will be told by their government that the “only way” to prevent their banker-paper from going to zero would be if the small number of Americans “hoarding gold” are forced to surrender their metal. The “mob” (which owns no gold, and thus has nothing to lose) will gladly turn on their fellow-Americans, who had the prudence to protect themselves from the destruction of the dollar.

To illustrate how such behavior is typical of the U.S. public, we need only look to current events. First we have the U.S. public negligently tolerating a state of “permanent war”: the “War for Drugs” in Afghanistan, and the “War for Oil” in Iraq. And all it takes to get the U.S. public to apathetically ignore both these “wars” is for the U.S. government to ensure that all suffering/sacrifice is borne exclusively by the minority of Americans in military service (and their families).

We see the same pattern again as Republican governors in many states seek to exterminate their public sector unions. The majority of Americans (who joyfully tossed-away their own private sector unions) were quite happy to vote these union-busters into office – so that a small minority could be forced to make sacrifices on their behalf.

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Once the U.S. government has again stolen most of the gold from its citizens, then the “switch” will be announced: that there will be no new “gold standard”, despite confiscation. Here the U.S. government will have a choice of scapegoats to blame for its next betrayal.

It could choose to blame “foreign governments”. There isn’t enough gold on the entire planet to “back” a U.S. economy with $60 trillion in total public/private debt, so there would have to be international negotiations on “debt forgiveness” (involving many Western economies) before any new (viable) gold standard could be created. Thus all the U.S. government would have to do to sabotage any potential, new gold standard would be to adopt a totally unreasonable bargaining position.

Most likely however is that it would choose to scapegoat those Americans personally holding their own gold (who would certainly not voluntarily surrender it, even if ordered to do so). If the government was successful enough in demonizing these people, then the “mob” would likely cheer as government thugs busted down doors one-by-one – and looted the last of the “real money” held by Americans.

There would be a new “permanent war” in the U.S.: the War Against Bullion-holders. Just like the vacuous “War on Terror”, the U.S. government would (on the one hand) endlessly boast about its “success”, while out of the other side of its mouth it would lament that it had never stolen quite enough gold to commence a new gold standard. With a population which is never even allowed to “look at the books” of its own central bank, obviously Americans would never be told the truth about either how much gold the U.S. government had stolen from its own citizens, nor how much it was hoarding.

Americans must learn their history. Once they do, they will quickly realize that confiscating bullion is not the “last resort” for the U.S. government, but rather its “first choice” – an event for which it merely awaits the right opportunity.



http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17565:the-great-gold-bait-and-switch&catid=48:gold-commentary&Itemid=131

scary! sounds plausible!

does sound plausible..yes

I am a member of this site. It has helped me deal with the sudden loss of my son. Take it for what you will, but this "Erik" seems to know an awful lot. It is a mother channeling her son Erik via a psychic medium Jamie. I know, I know....just read it.

The Future of the United States

Channeling Transcript


Me: Will the U.S. retain its superpower status and its ability to help others or will it eventually collapse?

Erik: It’ll eventually collapse.

Me: Oh, wow. Timeframe?

Erik: It’s not an overnight thing and it’s not a rumbling thing. It’ll just gently lose power. We’re always seen as the place to gain more freedom. It’s always going to do its best to focus on the people.

Me: Okay.

Erik: But you’ll find that, uh, it’s a financial thing, because we’ll find ourselves so in debt that we can’t keep up. Where it’s going to fall apart is as we give away our resources to allow other people to do this work or that work. Outsourcing. One day we’ll wake up and we don’t have anything left to supply ourselves and the other countries will realize they have us paralyzed.

Me: Oh, no!

Erik: Yeah, and we won’t be financially able to back it up. Some of it has already happened. The Depression—

Jamie: And he puts up his finger.

Erik: NOT the recession. That was a Depression and it was greater than the one in the 1920s.

Me: Wow!

Erik: But the goddamn marketing likes to treat us like babies; they put blindfolds on us just to try to make us be happy.

Me: So will this all create some sort of national security problem? Will we be taken over by another country? Will there be chaos and panic in the streets?

(Long pause)

Erik: Nope. No takeover.

Pretty short answer for such a long pause!

Me: So, maybe some good will come out of it! Maybe we’ll lose some of our arrogance, at least on the part of our government.

Erik: Yes! And our love for material possessions at the expense of the spiritual. Material stuff isn’t bad unless it displaces love and compassion and other spiritual things.

Me: Okay, good!

Erik: But the one thing that will continue is the entertainment business. The U.S. will still be king of the hill there.

Jamie listens to Erik for a while, then asks him: I wonder. Are we really?

Erik: Yeah, especially in movies.

Me: Well, will we still have our freedoms? Will we still be “The Land of the Free?”

Erik: We’ll still have freedom, but not all of the resources that we’ve grown used to. So, the choices will be narrowed, but we’ll still have choice.

Me: Okay. So no more questions like “paper or plastic?” Oh, I have this one concern from a blog member who’s heard rumors that scores of Americans will be rounded up in vans and boxcars and then will be killed. There’s some government involvement of some sort. Something about the government. Supposedly, there are already a whole bunch of federal detention centers all over the country poised and waiting to be filled. Will that happen (gulp)?

Erik: Mom, you can’t do that to a whole country!

Me: No, not ALL Americans! Stanley, the blog member who’s been a part of the channeling Erik family from the very beginning, voices considerable concern that some groups will be rounded up, kind of like an American Holocaust.

Erik (giggling): I LOVE Stanley, but sometimes he gets a little too worried. It’s like when we put our finger on something, it triggers him to be more alert. He gets triggered to get alert about certain things. But what’ll happen is just the financial breakdown. We’re ants. No person in power wants to take the time to smash ants. We’re the worker bees, and there’s not that kind of life or death war happening on our territory. It’s all about resources. The scariest thing coming is—

Jamie (chuckling): He’s kind of backtracking.

Erik (with sarcasm): Damn, this is just a conversation of JOY!!

Me (in mock placation): I know, Baby, but well get to some fun stuff in a minute! Wait for it…wait for it…

Erik: If you really want to talk about scary stuff, let’s talk about how fragile we are as a human race. We’ve relied so much on Internet, on food being in the grocery stores, and that all you have to have is money to get your food.

Me: Uh huh.

Erik: Well that exchange is gonna break down. It’s not gonna break down for years and years—

Jamie (to Erik): Wait. (pause) Do you— Okay, okay.

Erik: It WILL break down like within the next two to three years, but it won’t break down for years at a time.

(At this point, I’m making a huge mental grocery list. Best to be prepared.)

Erik: One month, even just one month of not being able to do that is scary for a lot of people. Just think of the people who’ll starve!

Me: Oh no!

Erik: There’ll be mass suffering. Even if the Internet goes down, think of the companies that’ll be paralyzed, people who can’t function. What we have to tell people is, yeah, this is nice, but you need to learn how to run your company, access your money, run your household and do everything else without a computer, without electricity—

Me: Learn how to survive off the grid!?

Erik: Off the grid. That’s where people need to be.

Jamie listens to Erik for a long time, then says: He tells me he’s so sure about it, not because of internal wars or because of 2012—

Me: Um hm.

Erik: No, the magnetic poles in the earth combined with the solar flare-ups—these can easily shift; these subtle electromagnetic frequencies can damage our equipment, cause headaches, stomachaches and misery, and the solar flares can heat up and damage our satellite systems, and there we are, simple as that! Paralyzed as a world.

Me: Wow. So what resources are going to be scarcer? Everything? Food, money, that sort of thing?

Erik: Yeah.

Me: So maybe this will help us become empowered as individuals and as communities. Maybe this will be a wonderful lesson to learn that scarcity is an illusion and that together, we can break down that fictitious wall for ourselves and others in the spirit of love, cooperation and compassion. That’ll be a huge test for us, huh? No more “paper or plastic?” The real choice will be “Love or fear?”

Erik: Bingo
http://www.channelingerik.com/the-future-of-the-united-states/#comment-10079

thankyou nikki..very very interesting..i assume jamie speaks for erik during this?

Iranian President Linked to Black Magic, Summoning Genies

Iran's powerful clerics have accused associates of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of witchcraft, including summoning genies, amid an increasingly bitter rift between Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme religious leader.

In recent days, some 25 confidants of Ahmadinejad and his controversial but loyal chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei have been arrested and charged with being "magicians."

One aide, Abbas Ghaffari, was described by conservative Iranian newspaper Ayandeh as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with unknown worlds."

Ghaffari has reportedly been accused of summoning a genie, who caused his interrogator to have a heart attack.

The arrests are the latest window into the growing rift between Ahmadinejad, Iran's elected secular president, and Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the country's appointed religious supreme leader.

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As clerical dogma loses traction, traditional beliefs that incorporate ideas about a coming messiah, the end of the world, and traditional magic motifs like djinns, or genies, are becoming increasingly popular especially with Ahmadinejad's base.

The president himself has made supernatural claims, telling followers in 2005 that he was surrounded by a halo of light during a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, in which the foreign leaders in the hall were transfixed, unable to blink for a half hour.

The religious establishment has long had its eye on Mashaei, the man behind much of Ahmadinejad's political and religious thinking, because he practices an alternative Messianic --though no less fundamentalist -- version of Islam that includes aspects of the occult and a more limited role for clerics.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-president-ahmadinejad-allies-charged-black-magic-summoning/story?id=13561870&page=1

Hmm more and more talk of some kind of "shift" coming to this world. Hype?

got that

Is a $666 Price Target for Apple ‘Reasonable’?Q

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/72753604/


666 eh?

nice!